Easy Peasy Sugarless Cookies made with honey.

We absolutely love baking – if you visit Just For Daisy it’s chocked full of recipes and Miss Daisy is almost always involved. She measures, stirs, pours and can crack eggs with the best of them!

At Christmas time our shortbread recipe gets a good workout and we also love to make iced sugar cookies to gift to our friends and neighbours.

However, sugar cookies, as their name suggests, contain a lot of sugar. Well, here’s a tasty recipe that we’ve devised that will keep your little ones happy as they munch on Christmas Cookies – and without the sugar!

Ingredients:

100g butter, chopped at room temperature

1 tsp vanilla extract¼ cup honey

1 egg

3 cups plain flour (or wholemeal flour)

1 tsp baking powder

¼ cup milk

What to do:

1. Mix your butter and honey in a food processor until smooth and creamy. Add egg and vanilla. Mix to combine.

The next morning we decided to decorate our sugarless sugar cookies. Decoration challenged us a little in the sugar free department. We settled for a drizzle of low fat vanilla yogurt and a cheeky sprinkle of stars and Christmas shapes!

Bek is an Australian wife & mother. A primary school teacher on leave as a SAHM to two little girls, Miss Daisy (3) and Li'l Peppa (1). Just For Daisy is where she shares about her life and the loves of her life. Baking. Sewing. Crafting. Playing. all keep her busy. Her TV hasn't been plugged in in 2 years but the iPad is always on charge. You'll usually find her in the veggie patch or making a mess in the kitchen with two happy spoon lickers.

I’m sorry to say these didn’t turn out at all for me! I don’t know what I did wrong – I followed the recipe but it was just one hard rock when I took it out of the fridge and would not stick together. I couldn’t roll it out so I just squeezed some into a cookie shape and baked about 3 small ones because the oven was already on and I told my toddler I was making him cookies – he didn’t get to cut any out though. : ( I didn’t really find them sweet enough either but he didn’t mind.